Shardlake's investigations take him down a trail that begins among printshops in the filthy backstreets of London, but leads him once more to the labyrinthine world of court politics, where Protestant friends can be as dangerous as Catholic enemies, and those who will support either side to further their ambition are the most dangerous of all.Īccording to Amazon Lamentation will be released on Kindle on October 23rd.The date for the hardcover release is not yet available. The London printer into whose hands she entrusted the manuscript has been murdered, the book nowhere to be found. The Queen has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, a memoir so radical that if it came to the King's attention, it could bring her and her courtly sympathizers to ruination. As Catherine begins to lose the King's favor, she turns to the shrewd, hunchbacked lawyer, Matthew Shardlake, to contain a potentially fatal secret.

The Catholics decide to focus their attack on Henry's sixth wife, the Protestant Queen Catherine Parr. His Protestant and Catholic councillors prepare for a final and decisive power struggle whoever wins will control the government. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. If anyone is interested C.J Sansom releases a new Shardlake book in October and I can't wait to read all of the 592 pages.I love this series.Īs Henry VIII lies on his deathbed, an incendiary manuscript threatens to tear his court apart in the new installment of C.J. Awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger the highest honor in British crime writing From the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion comes the exciting and elegantly written first novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series Dissolution is an utterly riveting portrayal of Tudor England.

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